Paltry vs Diminutive - What's the difference?
paltry | diminutive |
trashy, trivial, of little value
meager; worthless; pitiful; trifling
Very small.
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* Shaftesbury
(grammar) Of or pertaining to, or creating a word form expressing smallness, youth, unimportance, or endearment.
(grammar) A word form expressing smallness, youth, unimportance, or endearment.
As adjectives the difference between paltry and diminutive
is that paltry is trashy, trivial, of little value while diminutive is very small.As a noun diminutive is
(grammar) a word form expressing smallness, youth, unimportance, or endearment.paltry
English
Alternative forms
* (l), (l), (l)Adjective
(er)- This is indeed a paltry flyer about a silly product.
- She made some paltry excuse and left.
- Could someone hope to survive on such a paltry income?
- Student grants these days are paltry , and many students have to take out loans.
Usage notes
* Nouns to which "paltry" is often applied: sum, rate, amount, number, price, salary, wages, fellow, pay, excuse, income, gain, compensation.Anagrams
* *diminutive
English
Alternative forms
*Adjective
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- diminutive of liberty
Synonyms
* (very small) lilliputian, tinyAntonyms
* (very small) huge, gigantic * augmentativeNoun
(wikipedia diminutive) (en noun)- Booklet, the diminutive of book, means ‘small book’ .
